The Children’s Services Unit (CSU) celebrates the diversity in community and believes in providing families with opportunities.
Our programs work with individuals, families and children. We aim to build parenting capacity that is sustained long-term through the provision of family supports, therapeutic interventions, the development of parenting and relationship skills and connection to community resources.
We work with families to identify and harness their strengths, address challenges, and build confidence. The CSU offers a number of programs, from parenting groups and home visiting programs to family support services, targeted intervention, specialist dad support, family preservation, reunification and foster care.
About the Service Breathing Space supports young women by providing individualised, intensive and culturally-responsive specialist interventions. Breathing Space practices on the foundation of trauma responsive practice, and is underpinned by a Therapeutic Framework designed and implemented by Dr Jackie Amos. The...
The Centacare Foster Care program provides out-of-home care placements for vulnerable children with complex needs aged 0-17 years of age who are unable to be placed in relative or kinship care or general foster care. The program supports the planned...
The Reunification Service helps families strengthen their relationships and improve family well-being of children, young people and parents. Reunification is a planned process of reconnecting children and young people in out-of-home care with their families. We combine a strengths perspective,...
Centacarerlu tampinthi ngadlu yaitya Kaurna yartangka tikanthi. Ngadlu tampinthi Kaurna Miyurna yaitya mathanya Wama Tarntanyaku. Centacare acknowledges that we are living on Karuna land. We recognise the Kaurna people as the owners / custodians of the Adelaide Plains. About the...
Kids in Focus supports parents/carers who are misusing alcohol and/or other drugs (AOD). In addition to a range of child-focused interventions, the service works to increase parenting capacity, build healthy relationships between parents and their children, and provide safe family environments....
The National School Chaplaincy Program (NSCP) supports schools to nurture student well-being through pastoral care. The program is designed to form part of already existing well-being services provided within school communities, and to complement careers advice, counselling services and other...
RESTORE Intensive Family Services delivers trauma- informed, culturally responsive and child-focused interventions to families with children. Under RESTORE, families receive intensive six-month in-home and community-based support to address child safety concerns and ensure children and families are strong and connected. RESTORE provides collaborative case...
At Centacare there is a unique program where social case work is being combined with psychotherapeutic and psychiatric interventions to provide a comprehensive multi-disciplinary service for extremely vulnerable families, most of whom are not able to or choose not to...
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